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It's often been hard to find YA science fiction and fantasy with LGBT characters, but this year there’s been something of an explosion of SF/F with LGBT characters. By “explosion” I mean I’ve found 10 novels of SF/F with LGBT main characters published by mainstream publishers. I haven’t been keeping track of SF/F LGBT YA over the years, but it seems to me that this is definitely an increase.

So here’s 2013’s class of queer young adult SF/F:

The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson, and Sarah Rees Brennan (Margaret K. McElderry Books) — A series of connected ebook short stories; pictured below is the fifth installment of ten